The Center for Historic Preservation prepares two types of preservation plans:
- The community or neighborhood/district plan serves as a planning document. It can include a survey of an area’s existing resources and its condition, traffic or parking studies, and recommendations on how to develop the area’s potential.
- The individual building plan helps prepare for restoration, rehabilitation, or renovation projects by creating in-depth surveys of a building’s historic, architectural, and artistic elements.
The Columbia Club Preservation Plan
Our recent work for the Columbia Club is a good example of an individual building preservation plan:
- We completed a preservation plan for the 1925 Columbia Club building located on Monument Circle in the center of Indianapolis.
- A team of two graduate assistants completed the report on the 10-story building as part of a summer internship in 2006.
- The report included a detailed history of the club organization, a chronology of alterations to the building, a condition assessment, a structural assessment, and a survey of the building’s 150 different artistic and architectural features.
- The Columbia Club Foundation, charged with preserving the 87-year-old structure, used the information from the plan to organize restoration and rehabilitation efforts.